Sentences with phrase «very substantial point»

I thank John McAfee for that tip - off; although I won't always trust a person who promotes a cryptocurrency too much (more on that in another article), he's got a very substantial point.

Not exact matches

Because I think China's nominal GDP growth has been overstated by a substantial amount because of its systematic failure to write down bad loans, I usually have subtracted 2 - 4 percentage points from the nominal GDP growth rate before I did my very rough calculation.
The very next week, President Clinton's market suffered its own mini-crash and gave away a substantial number of percentage points.
It would take a very substantial amount of discussion to prove or disprove any of those points.
As The Nation pointed out after the election, «One out of every four Trump voters voted with the Supreme Court in mind, and it's a safe bet that a very substantial number of those see the Supreme Court through the lens of abortion politics... If you can rally voters around abortion, few other issues matter.»
You can see he knows what he wants when we play the Champions» League - chasing sides, which is why we have witnessed very good wins against these sides and taken a substantial number of points from them when others have failed to do so.
Thomas is very left - wing but was at pains during last month's appearance at the Latitude Festival appearance to claim his audience isn't full of stereotypical bleeding - heart liberals, pointing out that there had been substantial support for bringing back the death penalty at earlier shows.
It's worth pointing out that a substantial minority of Lib Dems are very keen on ideas such as Land Value Tax which would directly address many of the problems arising from asset inequality, in particular the fact that land owners can often make substantial gains in wealth as a result of public works funded out of the income and consumption taxes paid by those of substantially less wealth than themselves.
Krishna Shenoy, the Lim professor of electrical engineering, bioengineering and neurobiology at Stanford and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, noted, «This substantial reduction in training time is remarkable as it requires the new algorithm to make very efficient use of neural data coming in for so little time, under a minute in some cases, and helps point the way toward further advances of real - world importance.»
It is not a substantial breakfast, so I'm ready for something else by the time I get to the office (usually rye bread with cheese and pickles; a very Swedish breakfast) but it's just the right amount to get me to that point.
This generation stretched for three model years and represented the Malibu at its very best before its substantial refresh, meaning a highly - engineered design built to be the best of everything the Malibu had offered at that point.
Obviously, i) we now have very negative Russian sentiment, ii) 2P reserves have been reduced to 72.5 million boe, and iii) when a share does this badly, investors hate it long past the point it actually turns the corner, but the potential's finally here for a substantial revaluation of PTR at some point.
There is very little work required to register, and 10 % points back is pretty substantial.
The point is that our actions over this 100 years will have permanent and very substantial effects (or hopefully not).
According to Jonathan Bamber of the University of Bristol, UK, speaking at the Copenhagen session on tipping points, that makes the process pretty much irreversible once it's started in earnest - you'd need a very substantial cooling for the ice sheet to return.
As Peter Molnar, one of the paper's authors, says in an interview with the BBC, ``... as the climate warms, we may not see any substantial effect on polar bear reproduction and survival for a while, up until some threshold is passed, at which point reproduction and survival will decline dramatically and very rapidly.»
While such «tipping points» (Kemp, 2005) are impossible to identify without substantial uncertainties, they may lead to irreversible effects such as biodiversity loss or, at the very least, impacts that have a slow recovery (e.g., on soils and corals).
; «He puts his point across in a measured and compelling manner»; «A sought - after junior with wide - ranging commercial experience in both litigation and arbitration»; «One of the first choices on the team sheet for a substantial case»; «Very detail - oriented and able to analyse a large amount of information quickly and efficiently»; «One of the first choices for a fraud case.
Both of these points suggest very substantial limitations on the type of acts that might be undertaken on Aboriginal title lands without consent and each deserves comment.
Of course there are no guarantees on future land value and if the value does very well, there will be substantial capital gains due at some point.
A first thing to know is that long - distance relationships (LDRs) are very common, with as many as 70 % of college students at some point dating someone who lives far away from them.1 Even beyond college, employment opportunities and military service mean that many romantic partners spend substantial amounts of time away from one another.
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